Saturday, December 6, 2008

Judo 12-6-08

We started with warm-up, and a bit of ukemi and shrimping. We went through the Ground Mobility Cycle, and practiced trapping the bottom man’s arms and other hand placement during transitions. Then we did some fine-tuning of kesa gatame.
Things for me to remember about kesa gatame:
1) Be sure to keep legs spread wide for a more stable base.
2) Try to keep both knees and the bottoms of both feet on the mat.

Next we went over 4 escapes from kesa gatame: the sit-up escape, the leg entanglement escape, the uphill escape, and the bridge-and-roll (which Pat nicknamed the “downhill escape”).
Things for me to remember about escapes:
1) Sit-up escape works well if top guy’s base is not wide enough.
2) Leg entanglement is good if his back knee is too high. Don’t go right for the knee with my foot. Goose his upper thigh and drive it down to his inner knee before latching on with the other leg. Straighten out and escape.
3) Uphill Escape – bump hard with belly and hips, grab his head, and drive his nose into the mat while escaping.

We spent a little time at the end talking about using “2 hands on a point” and framing the elbow to help effect a good escape. We also learned some escapes from other positions, like the “leapfrog”, the “crawfish”, and what I can only remember as “the long walk” (if Pat is reading, perhaps he could provide more technical terms for these?)

2 comments:

  1. You have a great memory. As for the things at the end, leapfrog and crawfish drills are what I call them, and the 'long walk' is as good a name as I've ever come up with for that excercise. Sometimes we call it the circle walk, but there are 1-2 other exercises that we do also known as circle walk, so i think from now on i'll call what we did today, 'the long walk.'

    congrats, you have named your first judo technique.

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  2. Ha! Actually, I think Nathan coined the phrase. After trying the escpe himself, he said "Boy, that's a long walk".

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